In Study in Which Some Participants Are Made Anxious and Others

question 64

Multiple Choice

In study in which some participants are made anxious and others are not, and anxious subjects then do more poorly on a difficult problem, anxiety is

• A)a subject variable
• B)the dependent variable
• C)an extraneous variable being controlled
• D)a manipulated independent variable

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